You are still inside your own opinion and you are still holding on to your ideas being the “right” ideas. Let go of that judgment.
Just drop it. Recognize that you feel one way about the thing and that way is not wrong. SoB feels a different way, his feelings are also not wrong.
Understand that there are as many truths on the planet as there are people. All views are valid. There’s nothing to judge.
Because you are an empath, you already tied your empathy to a perspective. That’s a bias you did not create inside yourself. It is a natural thing. You are very normal. This occurred automatically for you.
Your empathy selected the direction based on a million other feelings and thoughts that you have. You then made an intellectual judgment call about SoB’s post. His feelings are not abusive to anyone. His feelings are information. His feelings are neither right or wrong.
I have a feeling that if you did not choose empathy in certain cases you would also be quite hard on yourself. The way around our tendency to simplify right and wrong is to get curious with ourselves.
Wonder about why you feel so strongly in this case. Wonder beyond just the public nature of the discussion. What is it about you or what has happened in your life that makes you feel that public displays of ‘push offs from empathy’ are wrong?
Consider that one doesn’t get angry about a feeling they ‘don’t’ have. See the push away for what it is… not a rejection of anyone on the outside. Give the empathy you want and all will be well.
Promise.
